mesmerist, thaumaturgist, necromancer; witch doctor, medicine man, shaman; seer, soothsayer,
enchanting, adj. charming, captivating, intriguing, entrancing, attractive, prepossessing, engaging, winning; agreeable, winsome, enrapturing, ravishing, irresistible.
enchantment, n. 1. sorcery, witchcraft, magic. See - magic (defs. 1-3).
2. charm, fascination, delight, entrancement, allurement, glamor; bliss, rapture, transport, ecstasy; captivation, mesmerism, hypnotism,
enchantress, n. 1. sorceress, witch, hex, fairy; siren, Circe, Lorelei.
2. charmer, fascinating woman, Fr. femme fatale, seductress, Inf. mankiller, Inf vamp; Jezebel, Salome,
encircle, v. 1. surround, encompass, hoop, gird, girdle, engird; embrace, span, belt; wind, wreathe, en-wreathe; ring, environ, circumscribe; beset, hedge, besiege; enclose, hem in, confine. See - enclose.
2. make a circuit, compass, circle, revolve or rotate around.
enclose, v. 1. hem in, shut in, close in; pen, pen in, fence in, corral, Archaic, pound, impound; confine, immure, wall in, imprison, embar, cage; encompass, surround, girdle, picket; sheathe, encase, cloak, cocoon, enwrap, embosom; bracket.
2. insert, enfold, enter; hold, contain, include,
enclosure, n. 1. pen, sty, fold, corral, paddock, pound; ring, arena; precincts, South African, kraal, yard; prison yard, compound, stockade, concentration camp; court, close, cloister; circumvallation, enceinte, pale.
2. fence, fencing, railing; paling, boarding, palisade; barbed wire, hedge, hedgerow, barrier, barricade, ropes; girdle, mantle, jacket, wrapper, envelope, boundary; insertion.
encomium, n. eulogy, eulogization, laud, laudation, Archaic, magnification, citation; exaltation, glorification, panegyric; tribute, homage, honoring, crowning; extolment, praise, acclaim, acclamation; applause, plaudits, Inf. hand, hosanna, hurrah; paean, Archaic, grat-ulation; approbation, commendation, approval, endorsement, sanction,
encompass, v. 1. encircle, circle, circumscribe, surround, ring, ring around, environ, compass; belt, girdle, gird, engird, begird, enclose, hedge in, hem in, ensphere.
2. envelop, enfold, embrace; contain, comprise, include, take in, cover, comprehend, incorporate,
encore, interj. 1. again, once more, once again, bis, a second time, another time.
-v. 2. call back, recall, ask a repeat or return.
-n. 3. repeat, repeat performance, replay, return; ovation, standing ovation, bows, curtain calls,
encounter, v. 1. come upon, meet, accost, confront, face, come into contact, cross one's path; run into, Inf. bump into, fall across, run across; happen upon, chance upon, stumble upon, light upon, hit upon; come face to face with, front, stand in front of, stand facing.
2. meet with, experience, suffer, endure, undergo, bear; brave, brook, meet head on, come to grips with, tackle; befall, be one's lot, happen to.
3. contend, confront, clash, conflict with, skirmish, struggle; engage, meet, join, face; battle, do battle, war, make war, wage war; grapple, wrestle, spar, box, fight; tussle, scuffle, brawl, duel, shoot it out with, feud.
-n. 4. meeting, joining, junction, coming together, confrontation, facing; presentation, introduction, greeting, salutation.
5. combat, battle, skirmish, conflict; fight, contest,